SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 11.8.2026
Germany wants the world to know it supports the Palestinian state as evidenced by the bold act of several German men who climbed the flag pole outside the Parliament in Berlin and hoisted a Palestinian flag.
Definitely an act of flying high in support for the beleaguered people of Palestine under criminal and genocidal assault by Israel since October 2023.
Deutsche Welle 11.8.2026
A 22-year-old man took down the German flag at the Reichstag building in Berlin and replaced it with a Palestinian flag, police said on Sunday.
Police have launched an investigation into a suspected case of denigration of the state and its symbols, damaging public property and trespassing.
The Reichstag building is the seat of the lower house of German parliament, the Bundestag. The large German flag that flies in front of the building is known as the Unity Flag, or Flagge der Einheit in German, as it commemorates the German reunification of 1990.
The man climbed up the flagpole using a climbing harness at around 11:30 a.m. local time (1030 UTC) and threw the German flag to the ground, police said.
He lowered himself back down on his own, according to police, after which he was taken into custody.
He was supported by two other men aged 20 and 32, according to the report.
The Palestinian flag was removed with the assistance of the fire department.
As the mast hoisting cable had been damaged in the incident, the German flag could not be immediately raised again.
